The following table shows basic information about currency symbols in Unicode. The “Key” column indicates how the symbol can be typed when using a special currency keyboard layout (for Windows; works on any QWERTY keyboard). The notation AltGr indicates that the Alt key to the right of the space bar (often with the engraving AltGr) is used to modify the effect of a letter key.
| Code | Name | Browser | Image | Key | Usage (Quotations are from the Unicode Standard) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| U+0024 | DOLLAR SIGN | $ | view | Shift S | Used for several currencies, not only for the US dollar. |
| U+00A2 | CENT SIGN | ¢ | view | C | Used for hundredth of a US dollar. |
| U+00A3 | POUND SIGN | £ | view | AltGr L | Used for British pound. |
| U+00A4 | CURRENCY SIGN | ¤ | view | X | Used as a generic placeholder for a currency. |
| U+00A5 | YEN SIGN | ¥ | view | Y | Use for Japanese yen and Chinese yuan. |
| U+058F | ARMENIAN DRAM SIGN | ֏ | view | Shift D | |
| U+060B | AFGHANI SIGN | ؋ | view | A | |
| U+09F2 | BENGALI RUPEE MARK | ৲ | view | AltGr B | Historical. |
| U+09F3 | BENGALI RUPEE SIGN | ৳ | view | Shift B | Used in Bangladesh. |
| U+09FB | BENGALI GANDA MARK | ৻ | view | Shift G | |
| U+0AF1 | GUJARATI RUPEE SIGN | ૱ | view | AltGr G | |
| U+0BF9 | TAMIL RUPEE SIGN | ௹ | view | AltGr Shift T | |
| U+0E3F | THAI CURRENCY SYMBOL BAHT | ฿ | view | B | |
| U+17DB | KHMER CURRENCY SYMBOL RIEL | ៛ | view | AltGr K | Used in Cambodia. |
| U+20A0 | EURO-CURRENCY SIGN | ₠ | view | AltGr E | Was intended for ECU (European Currency Unit). |
| U+20A1 | COLON SIGN | ₡ | view | AltGr C | Used in Costa Rica and El Salvador. |
| U+20A2 | CRUZEIRO SIGN | ₢ | view | Shift C | Used in Brazil. |
| U+20A3 | FRENCH FRANC SIGN | ₣ | view | F | Historical. |
| U+20A4 | LIRA SIGN | ₤ | view | AltGr Shift L | Was intended for lira. |
| U+20A5 | MILL SIGN | ₥ | view | M | Rarely used for 1/1000 of US dollar. |
| U+20A6 | NAIRA SIGN | ₦ | view | N | Used in Nigeria. |
| U+20A7 | PESETA SIGN | ₧ | view | AltGr P | Historical. |
| U+20A8 | RUPEE SIGN | ₨ | view | Shift R | “India, unofficial legacy practice.” |
| U+20A9 | WON SIGN | ₩ | view | W | Used in Korea. |
| U+20AA | NEW SHEQEL SIGN | ₪ | view | S | Used in Israel. |
| U+20AB | DONG SIGN | ₫ | view | D | Used in Vietnam. |
| U+20AC | EURO SIGN | € | view | E | Widely used in Europe. |
| U+20AD | KIP SIGN | ₭ | view | K | Used in Laos. |
| U+20AE | TUGRIK SIGN | ₮ | view | T | Used in Mongolia. |
| U+20AF | DRACHMA SIGN | ₯ | view | AltGr Shift D | Historical. |
| U+20B0 | GERMAN PENNY SIGN | ₰ | view | AltGr Shift P | Historical. |
| U+20B1 | PESO SIGN | ₱ | view | P | Used in the Philippines. |
| U+20B2 | GUARANI SIGN | ₲ | view | G | Used in Paraguay. |
| U+20B3 | AUSTRAL SIGN | ₳ | view | AltGr A | Historical. |
| U+20B4 | HRYVNIA SIGN | ₴ | view | Z | Used in Ukraine. |
| U+20B5 | CEDI SIGN | ₵ | view | AltGr Shift C | Used in Ghana. |
| U+20B6 | LIVRE TOURNOIS SIGN | ₶ | view | Shift L | Historical. |
| U+20B7 | SPESMILO SIGN | ₷ | view | AltGr Shift S | “Historical international currency associated with Esperanto.” |
| U+20B8 | TENGE SIGN | ₸ | view | Shift T | Used in Kazakhstan. |
| U+20B9 | INDIAN RUPEE SIGN | ₹ | view | I | Official rupee currency sign for India. |
| U+20BA | TURKISH LIRA SIGN | ₺ | view | L | Official lira currency sign for Turkey. |
| U+20BB | NORDIC MARK SIGN | ₻ | Shift M | Historical, early representation of the Mark currency used in Denmark and Norway. | |
| U+20BC | MANAT SIGN | ₼ | AltGr M | Azerbaijani currency. | |
| U+20BD | RUBLE SIGN | |
view | R | The Central Bank of Russia has announced that this sign is official. |
| U+5143 | CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5143 (yuán) | 元 | view | Shift W | |
| U+5713 | CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5713 (yuán) | 圓 | view | AltGr W | Used in Chinese for various currencies. |
| U+A838 | NORTH INDIC RUPEE MARK | ꠸ | view | Shift N | Historical. |
| U+FDFC | RIAL SIGN | ﷼ | view | AltGr R | Used in Iran. |
| U+FE69 | SMALL DOLLAR SIGN | ﹩ | view | AltGr S | Small form variant of $. |
| U+FF04 | FULLWIDTH DOLLAR SIGN | ＄ | view | Q S | Fullwidth version of $. |
| U+FFE0 | FULLWIDTH CENT SIGN | ￠ | view | Q C | Fullwidth version of ¢. |
| U+FFE1 | FULLWIDTH POUND SIGN | ￡ | view | Q L | Fullwidth version of £. |
| U+FFE5 | FULLWIDTH YEN SIGN | ￥ | view | Q Y | Fullwidth version of ¥. |
| U+FFE6 | FULLWIDTH WON SIGN | ￦ | view | Q W | Fullwidth version of ₩. |
The table contains Unicode Characters in the “Symbol, Currency” category. It is larger than the Unicode block Currency Symbols, which is just an area dedicated for currency symbols. For historical and other reasons, currency symbols appear in other blocks, too.
In addition, the characters 元 U+5143 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5143 (yuán) and ᙑ U+5713 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5713 (yuán) are included for their meaning as currency symbols, even though they are not in the “Symbol, Currency” category.
The new character for the Russian ruble has been included into the PT Sans font, available also as hosted by Google. It has been added to several fonts (Arial, Calibri, Microsoft Sans Serif, Segoe UI, Tahoma, Times New Roman) in a software update to Windows.
Some other characters are sometimes called currency symbols, despite being letters that just have a currency denotation as one of their uses. For example, a symbol called “Kannada rupee mark” (ರ, U+0CBO), is Kannada letter ra, which may be used as an abbreviation of rupee.
Information about the use of currency symbols in different languages
and countries can be found on the CLDR page
By-Type Chart: Numbers:
The “currency keyboard layout” is a demonstration of a concept: a method of allowing simple and relatively natural way of entering special characters when they can be mentally associated with letter keys. Here the association is primarily based on the shape of the symbol, secondarily (especially when the symbol does not resemble any Latin letter) on the name or meaning of the symbol.
The layout may be freely used, distributed, and modified. It was created using Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator (MSKLC) and can easily be edited with it. The layout is also available as a .klc file.
The layout is useful if you need to type different currency symbols. For a more common case, typing just one currency symbol, it is usually more convenient to use a keyboard layout suitable for the language(s) being written and just enhance it with a key combination for the symbol (say, AltGr Y for the yen sign, or AltGr L for the Turkish lira).
